Impressions of LinuxWorld August 2004

Catching up with Linux in the enterprise at last week's LinuxWorld event.

Conclusion

This year the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo had a buzz that I have not felt
before: the reality of seeing Linux making a significant impact on corporations. We are
now past Geoffrey A. Moore's Innovators and Early Adopter stages and are
entering the Early Majority stage of Linux acceptance. I look forward to
attending this conference and show next year and seeing the developments.

Reg has been a heavy techie, an entrepreneur and businessman. Besides
the business and marketing end of things, he is interested in
standards, C++ standardization in particular. He has been a member of
the ANSI/ISO X3J16 Standards Committee for more than 10 years. Prior to
that, he helped develop standards for program design and helped author
the Canadian Standards Z243.1.

My caveat earlier about having both the input and output available still applies here. In no way are you trapped by using a product like Komodo. At any time, you can choose to take your code elsewhere. This is the way I interpret "freedom".

Also, keep in mind that I was reviewing products and what was happening at LinuxWorld. There are many no-cost Open Source products that basically do what Komodo does, but they were not at the conference, as far as I know -- thus no mention.